Education
Doi graduated from the Spence School, before attending Northwestern University, where she graduated in 1991 with a sociology degree and was a member of Delta Gamma sorority.
Doi graduated from the Spence School, before attending Northwestern University, where she graduated in 1991 with a sociology degree and was a member of Delta Gamma sorority.
Doi is known for the recording of the 9-1-1 call she made during her final moments from inside the South Tower as it was engulfed in flames. The recording was used during the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only criminal trials to result from the attacks. Her emotional conversation with 911 emergency operator Barnes made several international headlines.
lieutenant was said that she wanted to become a ballet dancer.
After graduation she took a job in public relations, then moved to banking. In 1997 she joined intelligence quotient Financials and soon became a Financial Manager.
Doi was the only child to the single mother Evelyn Alderete. According to the 9-1-1 recording played during the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, on September 11, 2001, when the south tower of the World Trade Center was hit by United Airlines Flight 175 she and another five people were trapped on the 83rd floor where intelligence quotient Financial Systems was located.
During the call the operator tries to keep Doi calm and extract information from her.
She answered "Well, there"s no one here yet, and the floor"s completely engulfed. We"re on the floor and we can"t breathe, And it"s very, very, very hot". Due to privacy reasons only the first 4 minutes of the dispatch call, which lasted 24 minutes, was released by the courts along with the rest of the recordings, numbering more than 1,600.
As the south tower burned, she asked the operator, "Can I stay on the line with you, please? I feel like I"m dying."
Near the end of the call, Doi spells out the last name of her mother and asks the dispatcher to set up a three-way call so that she can speak to her mother one last time.
"We couldn"t put her on," the dispatcher says. "We don"t have a three-way system for that." As smoke and heat began to overcome her, Doi gave 911 operator her mother"s name and phone number in hopes of passing on a last message.
lieutenant took three years for her remains to be found in the rubble. At the National 9/11 Memorial, Doi is memorialized at the South Pool, on Panel South-46.